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Today's Topics:
1. Voice of Greece (Wolfgang Bueschel)
2. logs (L?cio Ot?vio)
3. Voice of Greece (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. DX Listening Digest 10-02; World of Radio 1496 (Glenn Hauser)
5. The BBC will start broadcasting radio programmes in Creole to
earthquake-stricken Haiti on Saturday. (Paul)
6. Glenn Hauser logs January 21-22, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Antarctica (L?cio Ot?vio)
8. Glenn Hauser logs January 22-23, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
9. Re: Glenn Hauser logs January 21-22, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:07:51 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Voice of Greece
Message-ID: <0e8b09ebcc9a426a83bc28b476626...@hnpc2>
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reply-type=original
GREECE ERA-5, The Voice of Greece, ERT S.A., today Fri Jan 22, at 0800 UT
ERA-5 in Greek language on both 9420 and 12105 kHz (not 15630).
9420 kHz S=9+20dB, 12105 kHz S=9+40dB powerhouse signal here in southern
Germany. 73 wb df5sx
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:33:37 -0200
From: L?cio Ot?vio <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
Message-ID: <001101ca9b4e$f6007560$3d9cb...@home>
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4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. January, 21 2202-2209 female talks seems in
English, 2206 choral music. Het, carrier off at 2210, 33433 (lob-B).
5005, Equatorial Guinea, R. Nacional, Bata. January, 21 2212-2222 slow English
Pop, 2215 Spanish romantic Pop, 2219 Spanish Pop music. 34433 (lob-B).
5010, Madagascar, R. Madagasikara, Antananarivo. January, 22 0314-0322 male and
female presumed in Malagasy talks, alternating short instrumental music. 24432
(lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:24:41 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, "HCDX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Voice of Greece
Message-ID: <6056dc9cebbb42ddb3f6662af4719...@hnpc2>
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reply-type=original
Voice of Greece ERA-5 and ERT-3 regional service heard on three channels
again today Jan 22nd. 3rd tx at Avlis site was on repair since Dec 27, 2009.
In 6-10 UT slot only two frequencies in use. ERA-5, The Voice of Greece, ERT
S.A., today Fri Jan 22, at 0800 UT ERA-5 in Greek language on both 9420 and
12105 kHz (not 15630 kHz).
9420 kHz S=9+20dB, 12105 kHz S=9+40dB powerhouse signal here in southern
Germany.
At 1150 UT noted three Greek language transmissions from Avlis.
ERA-5 on both 9420 kHz S=9+20dB and 15650 kHz S=9+10dB, and weakest signal
from Avlis site on ERT-3 regional Thessaloniki relay 9935 kHz with S=9 pure.
73 wb df5sx
GREECE THE VOICE OF GREECE (ERA-5)
B-09 Short-wave Transmission Schedule
(Effective October 25, 2009 to March 28, 2010)
Avlis 1 Avlis 2 Avlis 3
UT (100 kW) (100 kW) (170 kW)
0000-0100 12105/226 7475/285 9420/323
0100-0200 12105/226 7475/285 9420/323
0200-0300*12105/226 7475/285 9420/323
0300-0400 7450/226 7475/285 9420/323
0400-0500 7450/226 7475/285 9420/323
0500-0600* 7450/226 7475/285 9420/323
0600-0700 12105/002 *7475/285 9420/323
0700-0800 12105/002 15630/285 9420/323
0800-0900 12105/002 15630/285 9420/323
0900-1000 12105/002 15630/285 9420/323
1000-1100 SILENT SILENT SILENT
1100-1200 #9935/285 15650/105 9420/323
1200-1300 #9935/285 15650/105 9420/323
1300-1400 #9935/285 15650/105 9420/323
1400-1500 #9935/285 15650/105 9420/323
1500-1600 #9935/285 *15650/105 9420/323
1600-1700*#9935/285 15630/285 9420/323
1700-1800 #7450/323 15630/285 9420/323
1800-1900 #7450/323 15630/285 9420/323
1900-2000 #7450/323 *15630/285 9420/323
2000-2100 #7450/323 7475/285 9420/323
2100-2200 #7450/323 7475/285 9420/323
2200-2300*#7450/323 7475/285 9420/323
2300-2400 12105/226 7475/285 9420/323
* Transmission ends 10 minutes earlier
Daily maintenance at 1000-1100 UT
Weekly maintenance every Tuesday at 0800-1200 UT
# ERT-3 Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias (Thessaloniki)
(John Babbis, Silver Spring, MD-USA, dxld Oct 2009)
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:48:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 10-02; World of Radio 1496
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
DX Listening Digest 10-03 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1003.txt
[as has been happening lately, upload of this edition as dxlatest has not been
immediate, but has been immediate at the last -1003 link above]
CONTENTS:
WOR 1496 / AFGHANISTAN +non / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ANGUILLA non / ANTARCTICA non
ham / ASIA non RFA B09 / AUSTRALIA VL8K+ / AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRALIA +non
HCJB / AUSTRALIA VMW / AUSTRALIA Ted Carter / BAHAMAS / BHUTAN / BIAFRA non /
BOLIVIA / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA / BURKINA FASO / CANADA SRC / CANADA CKZU /
CANADA CFZM / CANADA CFRX/CFRB / CANADA MIX FM / CHAD / CHECHNYA +non / CHINA
+non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR non / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non ham+ / CYPRUS / CZECHIA
+non / DJIBOUTI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / EGYPT B09 / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ERITREA
/ ETHIOPIA +non / FAROE ISLANDS / FRANCE +non / GREECE / GREENLAND / GUAM /
GUATEMALA / GUINEA / HAITI +non ham+ / ICELAND / INDIA +non / INDONESIA +non /
INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Iran jams / IRAN +non / ISRAEL / ITALY / JAPAN non / KOREA
NORTH +non / KURDISTAN / KUWAIT / LAOS +non / MACAU / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MALI /
MAURITANIA / MEXICO / MYANMAR / NEPAL +non / NETHERLANDS +non / NEWFOUNDLAND
+non / NEW ZEALAND /
NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA Bixby 1210 / OMAN / PAKISTAN +non /
PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES +non / POLAND +non / PORTUGAL /
PRIDNESTROVYE +non / ROMANIA +non / RUSSIA +non / SAINT HELENA / SAINT VINCENT
& GRENADINES / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA non / SEYCHELLES non / SOLOMON ISLANDS /
SOUTH AFRICA / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SYRIA
/ TAIWAN / THAILAND / TUNISIA / TURKEY / UGANDA / UKRAINE / UK non / UKOGBANI
ham / USA +non VOA / USA non Mashaal / USA Haiti relief / USA WBCQ / USA WTWW /
USA WWCR / USA WJHR / USA +non WWRB / USA WRMI / USA WINB/Alamo / USA +non WYFR
/ USA KJES / USA WRNO / USA CBS SW / USA LSA / USA Navy MARS/NNN0ENS+ / USA
+non NY Radio / USA WBAI / USA KUNM / USA WDMV / USA +non KMOX+/IBOC / USA
WLS/CQUAM / USA FCC / USA KEVT+ / USA WKOX / USA Soleil / USA KKZZ+ / USA
KSLG/KTXR / USA WTNI / URUGUAY / VANUATU / VATICAN / VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM /
WESTERN SAHARA non / YEMEN /
ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE / UNIDENTIFIED 1710 / UNIDENTIFIED 1710 /
UNIDENTIFIED 4850 / UNIDENTIFIED 4895 / UNIDENTIFIED 6074 / UNIDENTIFIED 6140 /
UNIDENTIFIED 6927 / UNIDENTIFIED 7194/7195 / UNIDENTIFIED 8930 / UNIDENTIFIED
non 9525 / UNIDENTIFIED 10107 / UNIDENTIFIED 11845 / UNIDENTIFIED 15800 /
UNIDENTIFIED 17630 / PUBLICATIONS / TINY TRAP / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / MUSEA /
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1496 headlines:
*Radio and the Haitian earthquake
*New relay site for Radio Australia
*DX and station news from Congo DR, India, Myanmar, Nigeria
*Future of shortwave from Radio Prague, Radio Verdad, Indonesia, Florida
*English from Pakistan, Serbia, Sri Lanka, BBC
*New Radio Mashaal to Pak-ghanistan
*We hear the new WTWW
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1496, January 21-27, 2010
[note WRMI is off the air or on reduced power/schedule;
but webcasts continue]
Thu 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Fri 0100 WBCQ Area 51 5110-CUSB
Fri 0200 WRMI 9955
Fri 1230 WRMI 9955
Fri 1530 WRMI 9955
Fri 2130 WWCR1 7465
Sat 0900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [2-weekly? Not Jan 22]
Sat 0900 WRMI 9955
Sat 1430 WRMI 9955
Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160
Sat 1900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 6170
Sat 2000 WRMI 9955
Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0900 WRMI 9955
Sun 1230 South Herts Radio 5835
Sun 1615 WRMI 9955
Sun 2000 WRMI 9955
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
Tue 1630 WRMI 9955
Tue 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [usually first airing]
Wed 1930 South Herts Radio 3935
Wed 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Thu 1300 WRMI 9955
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN:
http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:44:21 +1300
From: "Paul" <[email protected]>
To: "Hard-Core-DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] The BBC will start broadcasting radio programmes in
Creole to earthquake-stricken Haiti on Saturday.
Message-ID: <9689311ca836417eb037f6b173736...@windowspaul001>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=original
The BBC will start broadcasting radio programmes in Creole to
earthquake-stricken Haiti on Saturday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8475381.stm
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:36:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 21-22, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** BRAZIL. 11780 RNA already on the air with music at 0632 Jan 22 as I tuned
by, but when I passed the frequency again at 0640 it was missing. Then checked
// 6185 and that was on atop XEPPM. If one of the transmitters broke down, I
wish it had been the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 22 at 1448: poor on 8400, not audible on 9000 or 10210
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 5875, BBC Arabic still audible somewhat under BBC English via
Thailand, Jan 22 at 1433 as the latter was starting Politix UK show. Path from
Cyprus must be long-path, which makes it somewhat notable. If it were
short-path there would be lots of closer Europeans audible on 6 MHz band, which
is not the case at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, VOG on the air again as heard Greek, tuning past around 1450
Jan 22. Reports from Erik K?ie and Wolfgang B?schel earlier in the day confirm
three transmitters are once again funxional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, Sudan Radio Service ID in English mentioned several
times during otherwise Arabic dialect, Jan 22 at 1511, in voice-over
translation of someone in English, I think at the moment. No imposed
reverb/echo on the modulation this time, which helps a lot. 1517 gave address
in Nairobi, Kenya, but this is really transmitted from PORTUGAL (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11565, WYFR at 1454 Jan 22, lite reverb again upon Camping the
doomsayer, but no reverb when the program outro announcer started speaking, as
it was Family Bible Study #192 for current date (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 15610, WEWN English at 1508 Jan 22, discussion of ``pro-life`` with
heavy long-path echo from 39 megameters away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. MW report, with apologies to any SWBC-only readers who may stop
reading immediately or skip to UNIDENTIFIED.
Some people have been wondering about my getting WNAX-570 South Dakota in the
daytime here in Enid OK. Is it skywave, especially in midwinter? NO. I get it
all the time, month-in and month-out, QRN level permitting. It is always under
much stronger KLIF Dallas, and not really listenable, and with a slow SAH.
Last time I was in OKC at midday, Jan 15, I checked on the caradio, and WNAX
was still audible there, despite stronger signal from KLIF than in Enid, of
course. Approximate distance Yankton-OKC is only 400 miles, not as far as you
might think, since there is nowhere closer in SD than Yankton in the SE tip,
and the path is across our high-ground-conductivity Great Plains.
I would love to try for further KFYR-550 Bismarck ND, which also has a
tremendous coverage area; if only KFRM in Kansas would go away (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UT Logs afternoon of Jan 21 on caradio as I was driving around or parked at
various Enid spots:
1540 at 2042, ``ESPN Deportes Radio, 15-40 AM`` IDs more than once, with the
``ESPN`` letters pronounced as in English, no doubt mandated by management.
Promo for station ad sales with 214 AC soon gave away the source. Fortunately
The Dallas Metroplex has three overlain area codes so they have to give
10-digit phonumbers.
This was atop the channel, probably KXEL skywave underneath. Amid SS, inserted
a Selective Service System PSA in English, seemed aimed at guest aliens about
the need to register. Never heard call-letter ID, but NRC AM Log 2009-2010
shows it as KZMP, COL University Park, 32 kW in daytime, U4 antenna.
FCC AM Query shows a neat 3-lobe pattern, with peaks at 90, 190 and 285
degrees; nulls at 145, 230 and 355 (rounded off, measured only every 5
degrees). We are somewhere around 345-350 degrees, so suspect the pattern was
out of whack to be putting such a dominant signal in here, and certainly
skywave, not groundwave.
See http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=63551
Even stranger, FCC lists night power as 0.0 kW, yet includes all the antenna
parameters, a similar but different pattern with 5 lobes, the major one due
east. But on the pattern plot, power shows as 750 watts night, matching NRC AM
Log info.
Meanwhile, Metroplex Spanish on 1440 was inbooming, in fact far stronger than
OKC`s 1460 KZUE groundwave. No wonder, as KTNO is now 50 kW in daytime on what
was once a 10-kW regional channel.
I wonder how 1540`s KZMP calls possibly correlate with a Spanish slogan, or
with ESPN. Or are they just random? ``Zumbido m?s potente``? But there is no
hum, hmmm.
Also wonder how the network ESPN could come up with a Spanish or English slogan
to match the letters, which long ago became a meaningless corporate initialism,
rather than Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, as was the original
cable TV channel (I think). How about
``Extremely Silly Passion Network``
``Est?pidos Son Para Nosotros``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1060, Jan 21 at 2054 UT, financial talk about derivatives, ``Off the Wall
Street Radio Network`` --- not sure if that was a joke? No, googled this about
Phil`s Gang Radio Show, and the time matches 20-21 UT:
http://chataboutit.com/about/phils-gang-radio-show/
Apparently that ``network`` applies only to this one show, like EIB.
But whence on 1060? Retuned after hourtop at 2105, ad mentioned ``here in
Boulder``, then ``AM 1060 and 1580, Business Radio`` in Colorado. So it`s KRCN,
COL Longmont, 50 kW in daytime. 1580 refers to KKKK Colorado Springs; NRC AM
Log shows them both as ``The Big Money Station``, not a slogan I heard. 1060
was so steady for so long that I was wondering if I had a new semi-close
station by groundwave, normally vacant in daytime, but no, this was skywave
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1220, South Asian music dominating the channel, Jan 21 at 2124, in fact
classical sitar music, nice! 2130 switched to vocal S Asian music. Only problem
a bit of splash from semi-local WBBZ 1230 Ponca City OK.
Lots of music, lacking ads or other announcements, even at drivetime! Should
also make it a good companion if it streams. Finally at 2139 gave phone number
972-243-8411, i.e. Dallas. 2200 kept playing music past hourtop, a song with
instrumental accompaniment including bagpipes. 2204 dead air as I had to tune
away, but still there at 2225 check.
Uplooked later in NRC AM Log, this is KZEE, COL Weatherford TX, Asian ethnic as
``Hot Pepper 1220`` and ``South Asian Radio`` with only 1.6 kW day power, so
doing a good job here on afternoon skywave. Is Midwest City OK KTLV still on?
Rarely audible here and no problem for KZEE`s Enid listener.
Yes, it does stream, autolaunching from http://www.radiohotpepper.com/ And is
there a program/language schedule? Of course not! But there is quite a gallery
of hosts, most of them not accompanied by specific time slots. Refers to format
as ``Indi-Tex``, and shows radio-locator map from site W of Ft Worth so skews
eastward, but not nulled usward.
The Metroplex sure has a lot of Asian stations of various ilx, as well as
Spanish ones all over the AM dial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1190, Jan 21 at 2148 UT, promo for a silly ballgame in Lubbock, but then ID as
``CNN 1190`` so has to be KFXR Dallas, which has a minor lobe almost due north,
besides the major lobes to the WSW and ESE from site W of Dallas. That`s the
original KLIF facility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1210, Jan 21 at 2152, heard ID in English as ``ESPN Radio``, apparently atop
KGYN. Only thing that fits per NRC AM Log listings is WSKR, COL Denham Springs
LA, near B?ton Rouge with 10 kW, tho there`s another ESPN in SW Utah, a bit too
early for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15140, open carrier Jan 22 at 1510 atop weak Arabic; the latter
no doubt Oman, and the carrier helped to audiblize it, muscling aside much
stronger WYFR Spanish from 15130, but not completely. The carrier had some
fading, so maybe from further than Greenville, but whence? Nothing likely
scheduled now or later on 15140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:36:15 -0200
From: L?cio Ot?vio <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Antarctica
Message-ID: <001301ca9ba2$cd7f4e00$0331b...@home>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
15476, Antarctica, RN Arcangel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. January, 22
1924-2002 folk music selections, 1927 male time announcements in Spanish "con
cuatro horas e vinte e siete minutos", 1939 short male announcements. 34533
(lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m.
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:44:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 22-23, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ARGENTINA. RAE is back! Main transmitter used on 15345v and 11711v had been
off the air since late October, but Jan 23 at 0016 I noticed a het on 11710
with Chinese station. Could also be variable North Korea, but worth further
checking. At 0055, there was the RAE IS and now measured on 11709.4, so still
off-frequency but to the other side. By 0102 it was too weak to confirm
language, presumably Japanese as previously scheduled, and still hetting weak
11710 signal. The Chinese on 11710.0 is per Aoki: CNR1, Beijing 572 site, 100
kW, 285 degrees.
However, this sounds like the same old GE transmitter which RAE could never get
to stay on frequency, not a brand-new replacement which is supposedly on order.
So they managed to get it going again. Next check at 0215 found English from
RAE in the clear after China goes off at listed 0130; like the other foreign
languages, this English 02-03 broadcast is UT Tue-Sat only, finally French at
03-04; meanwhile, look for 15345v reactivated also. Per WRTH 2010, B-09 weekend
schedule of RNA relays is Sat 2000-0230 UT Sun on 15345; and Sun 1800-0300 UT
Mon on 11710v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 10000, Observat?rio Nacional, Jan 22 at 2313 with UT -2 timechex in
Brazilian every dekasecond with one pip, and with three pips at minutetop,
mixing with WWVH and WWV, including their weather segments between minutely
time announcements. Poor-fair signal but glad to have any at all if it`s still
only 1 kW or less. Must have been during a fade-down of superpower WWCR 9980,
which came back up at 2320 overloading 10000, disaudiblizing the timesignallers
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, VOG reactivated, poor Jan 22 at 2311 check with Greek music //
better 7475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [and non]. 11605, bad het between Brazilian Portuguese and unID
including music, Jan 23 at 0011. Brazilian is VOR via GUIANA FRENCH, and the
only other thing scheduled is RFA in Vietnamese via Tanshui, TAIWAN, per Aoki
--- another notoriously off-frequency relay from this country, like Tainan as
listed which which can`t make it to 9955.0 or 11550.0 either (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Discovered another unpublicized frequency for VOA`s Creole service,
filling in the gap between scheduled 2200-2300 and 0100-0200 transmissions:
7590. It may have been on for days, but I have not been bandscanning much in
this bihour. First heard Jan 22 at 2321 with Creole talk on phone, 2334 phone
number and ID as Lavwadlamerik (as they spell it in Krey?l, which forces French
to be more fonetik). 2359 recheck, VOA ID and off at 2359:30 so I quickly
scanned 7 and 6 MHz bands for another channel. By 0006 I came back to 7590 and
found it on again, so they faked me out. Must have had a transmitter and/or
antenna change to make at 0000, then resuming. 7590 still going at 0052, but
vacant after 0100 when the non-secret service is underway on 7465 and much
weaker 5960.
I`ll give VOA one more chance to display its full Creole schedule at
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
Checking at 0145 UT Jan 23:
NO, still no 7590 shown, and nothing in the 1930-2200 UT period either when we
have been hearing them on 15390, then 13725. Kai Ludwig suggests the
unpublicized transmissions could really be feeders to the Commando Solo relays
on AM and FM over Haiti, tho you`d think C.S. could get satellite feeds. Maybe
SW input is more convenient, not having to keep satellite dish aimed from
circling aircraft.
This means we need to search for further secret SW transmissions possibly
filling the rest of the 24 hours, 0200-1230 and 1330-1730.
A VOA press release of Jan 22 says VOA Creole ``has expanded its broadcasting
to 10.5 hours on weekdays and 9.5 hours on weekends`` without any details. The
known SW transmissions of 1230-1330, 1730-0200 add up to 9.5! But now there is
even more past 0200:
At 0215, 7590 is back on, but 7465 is still on too, rather than closing at
0200. 5960 no longer available, with NHK via Sackville. So how long will those
two stay on? Until 0300 would add up to 10.5 hours. I certainly have not heard
them previously when I scan after 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, 0238 UT Jan 23, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6501-USB with marine weather for Caribbean, at least partly
originating in Miami, by masculine robot voice, Jan 22 at 2324, but
distorted/overmodulated and splattering; soon found // 8502-USB which was in
better shape. Both are USCG frequencies, but not certain which station(s)
involved at this hour, maybe New Orleans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 25+ hours after 1440 was dominated by KTNO, Spanish from The
Metroplex, tried again on caradio Jan 22 at 2200 UT and immediately heard ID
for WGEM in Quincy IL. Now there`s a heritage call which has managed to
survive; I think I picked up their TV channel 10 in the 1960s long before I
heard the AM. But it`s no full service radio, now just another ESPN affiliate
per NRC AM Log listing. By 2206 Spanish music from KTNO was atop.
Also 24 hours after 1220 was dominated by KZEE, Hot Pepper 1220, one of The
Metroplex ethnic stations, Jan 22 at 2200 on the caradio I could barely make
out its South Asian music in the pileup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:42:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 21-22, 2010
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Follow-ups to two items:
** ARGENTINA. At 0312 UT Jan 23, the RAE 11709.4 signal was better in music,
presumably within French service, but a het once again. Now the only other
thing scheduled is CRI in Russian due west via Urumqi, East Turkistan (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. VOA Creole: Recheck at 0312 Jan 23, 7465 and 7590 are indeed off, and
did not search for further frequencies.
So summarizing, the full known schedule of Lavwadlamerik, combining overt
transmissions on schedule and covert ones as monitored:
1230-1330 6135-Bonaire, 9505
[above M-F only? Would account for one hour less on weekends]
1730-1930 15390, 17565
1930-2100 15390
2102-2200 13725
2200-2300 15390, 13725, 11905
[overt schedule no longer shows 15390 at 2200; not checked Jan 22]
2300-0100 7590
0100-0200 5960, 7465
0200-0300 7465, 7590
The overt schedule at all times day and night also shows 1180 ex-Radio Mart?,
Marathon, but is it also in use for any of the covert times? Cannot monitor it
from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. A BBC press release Jan 22 says they are starting a daily
Creole-language service from Jan 23, at 1410-1430 UT carried on several FM
stations in Haiti and ``also on shortwave``, but do they bother to give the SW
frequency? Of course not! We must hunt for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 23
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